Quotes of Ten - somelinesforyou

“ Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ”

- Margaret Junkin Preston

“ Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. ”

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

“ Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. ”

- Scott Adams

“ Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. ”

- Madame de Tencin

“ It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane. ”

- M. Grundler

“ When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ”

- Napoleon

“ To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. ”

- Andre Bernard Buruch

“ Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it. ”

- Persian

“ To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery. ”

- John Churton Collins

“ "Careful with fire" is good advice we know."Careful with words" is ten times doubly so. ”

- William Carleton

“ Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. ”

- Unknown

“ Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space. ”

- Judith Stone

“ People don't live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. ”

- Alain

“ Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York. ”

- Harry Ruby

“ The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". ”

- H. Allen Smith

“ A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. ”

- James Gould Cozzens

“ If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. ”

- James Gould Cozzens

“ Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. ”

- Hamlet

“ Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls. ”

- Tom Wolfe

“ It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ”

- Charles M. Schulz

“ I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. ”

- George Bernard Shaw
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